Strategy tips for newbie C'Tis

[Seve82]

Well started game on dificult or mighty ai and was doing good progress untill I manged to stumble upon Abysia on eastern front and Sauromantia on North. Both declared war quite fast on me. Currently have been warring back and forth on two fronts for some 50 turns with no victory in sight.

Had no time to mass up money to get 2nd fort going so I've been mostly down to one fort building troops untill I recently manged to wrestle one off abysians. Sad thing about that one is its on poor ground thus having barely any resources to build troops on.

My start loc was on desert lands leading to poor income. Map was designed so that I would start there...

So far been able to fight them with combination of mercenaries and nationals. Currently on conj 5 thus having first national summons and soon to have undead hordes on evocation(?)

So what kind of troops I should ideally have against Sauromantia. They keep raping my poor fellas with arrows. Abysia on other hand has much fewer troops but they are heavily armored and seem to have lots of salamanders which torch my poor lizards way too fast.